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Terra had made it to the Keyblade Graveyard and now stood at a sort of crossroad. Millions of Keyblades littered the ground, all of them stabbed into it. Terra noticed Aqua, Ventus, and Nia all approaching from different parts of the road. Aqua reached Terra first. Neither of them said anything for a second.
"I was told…" Aqua started to say. "That Master Eraqus was stuck down." Terra looked away from her. "Yes…" he said quietly. "That's right. I was stupid and helped Xehanort do it." Aqua was surprised. "So it is true…" she thought.
Terra continued talking. "Master Eraqus…he tried to hurt Ven." he said. "I only fought him because I wanted to protect him." Terra clenched his fist. "But I was tricked. Xehanort set the whole thing up. All so he could awaken the darkness inside me." He looked at Aqua. "You were right, Aqua." Terra said. "And so was the Master. I did need to be watched." Terra shook his head. "I went astray. But no more."
Aqua didn't say anything at first and looked at the ground. "What else is darkness," she asked Terra. "But hate and rage?" She looked up at him. "Xehanort is feeding the dark fires within you. Making you fight. You'll go astray again. Tell me. How does that does that honor our Master's memory, Terra?" Terra didn't answer. Nia and Ventus both arrived at the same time.
"Xehanort wants me and Vanitas to fight," Ventus said. "And make some kind of "X-blade". But the Master said we can't let that happen and he tried to destroy me for it." "X-blade?" Nia said. "I still don't know exactly what is." Ventus said. "But it scares me. Even just the thought of it." Terra put a hand on Ventus's shoulder. "Relax, Ven. We're here and we're gonna take care of you." "I may have to fight Vanitas after all." Ventus said. "If I do, guys…I want you to-" "The four of us can never be torn apart." Terra said. "All right? I'll always find a way."
Aqua put her hand on Ventus's face while Nia slipped her hand into Ven's and squeezed it to let Ventus know she agreed with Terra. Ventus shook his head and pushed all their hands away. "I'm asking you, as a friend." he said. "Just put an end to me." Terra, Aqua, and Nia gasped at what Ventus was asking. The wind suddenly picked up and dust flew past them. Xehanort walked towards the four along with Vanitas. They stopped a few feet from Terra, Aqua, Ventus, and Nia. The four friends glared at them.
"Behold…" Xehanort said. He gestured with his hand to the Keyblades around them. "These lifeless keys used to be full of power. United with the hearts of their masters. On this barren soil, Keyblades of light and darkness were locked in combat as a great Keyblade War raged. Countless Keyblade wielders gave up their lives, all in search of one, ultimate key. And it will soon belong to me." He pointed directly at Ventus. "X-blade!"
Terra, Aqua, Ventus, and Nia glared at Xehanort and then summoned their Keyblade armor. Ventus started to run after Xehanort, but Terra tossed him aside and ran ahead instead his Keyblade raised. As Terra jumped to attack Xehanort, the old man lifted his hand and a column of earth pulled up and knocked Terra onto it. He looked up to see Xehanort and Vanitas riding another column of earth to higher ground. Xehanort chuckled to himself and put out his hand. Aqua gasped as wind picked up some of the Keyblades creating swirls of them. As one headed in her direction she ran off. "Ven! Nia!"
Vanitas jumped on one of the Keyblade swirls and watched as another one knocked Ventus and Nia to the ground. Nia got back up and chased Vanitas. "I am sick of you!" she said. She managed to jump on one of the Keyblade swirls and rode it, chasing Vanitas. Vanitas fired a blizzard at her knocking her off the keyblade swirl and making her fall on the ground.
Terra was trying to reach Xehanort avoiding the Keyblade swirls but one knocked him off the column of earth he was running on. Another knocked him into the air. Aqua looked at him worriedly then gasped as another swirl of Keyblades appeared from beneath the ground and knocked her into the air. She fell back onto the ground. Hard. Ventus ran to her. "Aqua!"
Aqua grabbed her Keyblade and a beam of magic gathered at the tip. "Terra!" Aqua said. Magic fired from the Keyblade and surrounded Terra creating a protective barrier around him. The Keyblades crashed against the barrier and broke it. Xehanort smiled and watched as Terra fell onto the cliff he was on. Xehanort aimed his Keyblade at him. Ventus tried to hit Xehanort but the old man teleported behind Ventus and grabbed him by his helmet. "Ven!" Terra said. He lunged at Xehanort but another swirl of Keyblades knocked him off the cliff Xehanort was on. Vanitas jumped from the Keyblade swirl and landed near Xehanort.
Aqua and Nia looked up and saw Xehanort holding Ventus. "Ven!" Nia said. Xehanort froze Ventus's body and dropped him off the edge of the cliff. Ventus's helmet broke off as Ventus fell to the ground. Aqua caught Ven and looked at him. Nia ran up to them. "Ven, are you okay?" Nia asked. Ventus could only respond by moving his eyes. Xehanort fired a dark ball of energy at the sky. The clouds in the sky parted showing a heart shaped moon in the sky. Aqua and Nia both gasped at the moon. A far distance from where the fight was talking place Mickey made it to the Keyblade Graveyard with his Keyblade in hand and glared at the battle happening.
Terra slowly got up from the ground and looked up at the cliff Xehanort was standing on. He summoned his Keyblade Glider and flew to the top. As Terra landed on the top of the cliff his Keyblade Armor and Glider disappeared. "Admirably done." Xehanort said. "I know this was journey you could make-over the unseen wall the divides both darkness and light. And I was not wrong, Terra!"
Terra glared at him and summoned his Keyblade. "My friend, Ven. You tell me, Xehanort. What did you do to him?" "Why, I did him a favor and freed the darkness inside him." Xehanort said. "Alas, poor Ventus never had the fortitude for such strenuous trials." "Xehanort!" Terra yelled.
On the ground Nia and Aqua watched over Ventus.
"How 'bout you leave the popsicle and his girlfriend with me, so you can have your little fight with Terra."
Aqua and Nia looked up and saw a man wearing a guard's uniform walking up to them. He wore a tore up red scarf around his neck and had a eyepatch over his right eye and a scar on the left side of his face. Nia immediately recognized him. "Braig." she said. "You can't be too happy about him deep-sixing your Master." Braig said to Aqua. He chuckled darkly to himself. Nia tilted her head. "Weird." she thought. "I thought his eyes were brown. And his ears a lot less pointy."
"You think you three have got some grand role to play." Braig said. "As if! You're only here so when I finish you off, Terra will succumb to the darkness. So…who wants to go first?" Ventus glared at him. "Shut up!"
Braig laughed. "Oh, so this kiddo thinks he's full-fledged Keyblade wielder? He's got the angry look down." "Go ahead if you want to waste your time." Aqua said. "Keep trying to tear us apart with your mind games. It'll never work!" Aqua handed Ventus to Nia and got up and summoned her Keyblade. "Terra will prove to you he's stronger!"
She ran to fight Braig who pulled out his arrowguns. Braig tried to charge at her with his arrowguns firing at her but Aqua blocked them. Braig jumped into the and landed upside down. He began to teleport around the area taking random shots at Aqua. Aqua fired a blizzard spell at Braig who quickly teleported behind Aqua. Aqua guessed Braig would do that and hit him with her Keyblade. Braig shouted in pain and dropped back to the ground. "Take this!" he said charging up a attack. He fired at Aqua but she cartwheeled out of the way in time.
"Reload." Braig said. He began to spin around in a circle firing in all directions. None of the bullets hit Aqua though. Braig jumped into the air and stayed there. Darkness spread from his body.
"Kiss yourself good- bye, Aqua!" he said as he created a portal underneath and fired into it causing all the bullets to fly in random directions. Aqua blocked most of them but she was beginning to struggle and it did not seem like Braig would give up. They suddenly stopped. Braig frowned, landed on the ground and fired again but nothing happened.
"Aw crap, not again." Braig said. He looked up to see Aqua running towards Braig her Keyblade aimed right for his face. She uppercut him and sent him falling backwards.
Terra ran towards Xehanort but the old man blocked his Keyblade with his own. He looked at Vanitas." "Go take what Ventus owes you," Xehanort said."And take Aqua and Nia's lives!" Vanitas nodded and jumped off the cliff. Terra pushed Xehanort back and tried to run after Vanitas but Xehanort teleported in front of him. Terra jumped back.
"You see how powerless you are to save them?" Xehanort said. "Savor that rage and despair. Let it empower you!" "You will pay, Xehanort!" Terra said. Darkness began to appear from his body as Terra felt a rage begin to build inside him. "Was my master-no, my father, Eraqus not enough for you? Leave my friends alone!"
Xehanort's eyes gleamed excitedly as Terra began to struggle with keeping his darkness inside. "Yes, boy, that's it!" he said. "More! Let your whole heart blacken with anger!"
Terra was sick of it. He was sick of everything. Sick of the fact that he failed his Mark of Mastery, sick of accidentally helping almost every single villain in all the worlds he visited with their plans, sick of being a easy guy to trick, but most of all he was. Sick. With. Xehanort. Not being able to keep the darkness inside him anymore Terra released the darkness inside him and his frustrations all into one scream. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Braig got up panting. "You know, I keep forgetting. Don't mess with Keyblade wielders." he said. "Well you know what? That just means I made the right choice!" He smirked and looked up at the cliff where Xehanort was. "Well, he wanted me to buy time. I'd say he got it."
Braig ran off and Aqua turned to Ventus and Nia. "Ven! Nia!" she yelled. Nia gasped as Ventus said, "Aqua look out!" The next thing Aqua knew she was knocked out.
For a old man Xehanort attacked very fast. Terra tried to run up to him, but Xehanort used a flurry of attacks with his Keyblade against him. As Terra used his Keyblade blocked Xehanort's last hit, Xehanort teleported behind Terra. "Concede!" Xehanort yelled. He lifted his hand and a chunk of the ground they were standing on knocked Terra into the air. Xehanort smiled and then threw out his hand. "Freeze!" Three sharp shards of ice flew towards Terra. One cut his arm slightly, another his leg, and the last one his face. Terra landed on the ground glaring at Xehanort already mad at him for tricking him and his friends.
"Just give up, my boy!" Xehanort said. He fired a thunder spell at Terra who quickly dodged out of the way. "Give in to the darkness within your heart!" "Shut up!" Terra yelled at him. He ran towards Xehanort who teleported behind him again. Terra guessed this and knocked his Keyblade into his back. "What?" Xehanort said. The old man fell to one knee using his Keyblade to support him. "It's over, Xehanort." Terra said. "You've lost."
Xehanort laughed. "On the contrary, my boy." He looked at Terra. "Only now I have I truly won."
Ventus and Nia watched as Vanitas raised his Keyblade over Aqua who was unconscious. Ventus struggled to get up while Nia ran towards Vanitas. "No!" she said. Vanitas turned to her with his Keyblade hitting her in the back of the head knocking her out. "Don't worry." he said. "I'll get you next, Princess." He turned back to Aqua. "No!" Ventus yelled. He came running at Vanitas who ran off and jumped onto a swirl of Keyblades.
As Vanitas flew around firing blizzard spells at Ventus, Ventus avoid Vanitas and threw his Keyblade at him knocking him off the swirl of Keyblades. Ventus came running again at Vanitas. Vanitas raised his Keyblade to block Ventus's. "I won't let you hurt my friends!" Ventus said. He was surprised to hear Vanitas laughing. Ventus pushed Vanitas back and ran to him again and hit him in the face knocking him into the air. Vanitas fell to the ground and slowly got up using his Keyblade for support.
"You've done it, Ventus." Vanitas's helmet disappeared showing his face. He had spiky black hair and yellow eyes. "Now that my body is about to perish," Vanitas said. "You and I will have to join together!" Ventus gasped as darkness spread from Vanitas's body. "The X-blade will be forged!" Vanitas said. The darkness from Vanitas surrounded Ventus in a small circle. Unversed appeared from the darkness and jumped on Ventus holding him down. "The Unversed…come from you?" Ventus asked.
Vanitas smirked. "It happened when you and I were split into two. The negativity took shape as these monsters. They are what I feel-a horde of fledgling emotions under my control. I released them into all the worlds I could hoping to lure you away from home and isolate you from your Master."
Vanitas walked up to Ventus. "We needed to make you stronger. The Unversed were the perfect opponents. And better yet, no matter how many times you defeat them, their negativity flows right back into me. You never stood a chance against us, Ventus." Vanitas walked into Ventus. Ventus struggled as Vanitas merged with him again. Ventus then screamed as a light surrounded him, shooting into the sky.
As Xehanort knelt on the ground using his Keyblade to support a rumble shook the ground and Xehanort covered his head. When he looked up, he gasped and pointed behind Terra. "There, you see?" Terra turned around and saw a beam of light shooting into the sky. Xehanort got up. "The X-blade has been forged!" "Ven!" Terra said.
Xehanort aimed his Keyblade at his chest. "And now, Terra, it is time for the final union!" Terra turned around just as Xehanort pressed his Keyblade to his chest. "What?" Xehanort's Keyblade disappeared and his heart came out of his chest. "At last our moment is here." Xehanort said. "Out with the old and brittle vessel, and in with a younger, stronger new one!"
Terra watched as Xehanort's heart floated in the air. "I swore I would survive." Xehanort said. "And be there to see what awaited beyond the Keyblade War!" Xehanort looked at Terra and smiled. "And now it is your darkness, Terra, that shall be the ark the sustains me!" He aimed his heart at Terra and Terra quickly summoned his Keyblade armor.
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